Derek > Derek's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“life without love, is no life at all”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”
― Leonardo DaVinci, Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
― Leonardo da Vinci